Third occipital nerve headache: a prevalence study.
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Third occipital nerve headache: a prevalence study.
A consecutive series of 100 patients was studied to determine the prevalence of third occipital nerve headache in patients with chronic neck pain (> three months in duration) after whiplash. Seventy one patients complained of headache associated with their neck pain. Headache was the dominant complaint of 40 patients, but was only a secondary problem for the other 31. Each patient with headache...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
سال: 1994
ISSN: 0022-3050
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.57.10.1187